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I tried GTD way back when in the heady Merlin Mann days, but never got a capture-anywhere method that I liked. Hipster PDAs were out due to me writing with pens

by mhd 9y ago

I tried GTD way back when in the heady Merlin Mann days, but never got a capture-anywhere method that I liked. Hipster PDAs were out due to me writing with pens isn't exactly enjoyable/readable, and I get tired easily by my slow mobile typing speed, too. And voice notes while among other people? I'm a German introvert, goshdarnit... On the computer, there's a plethora of possibilities (org, notational velocity, "quake terminal" with editor), of course.

eru 9y ago
On the voice notes: Google's voice recognition has improved markedly in recent years. Now it can even understand my German-accented English rather well.
- mhd 9y ago
  I don't mind typing the notes once I'm in front of a real computer, I just don't want to do the "note to myself" while in public. And otherwise, I haven't found anything that gets me to capture things like "note: buy eggs" or "note: consider PEGs for the query builder optimization" fast enough. (Opening an app and laboriously using the mobile keyboard don't do it for me in the long run and just cause me to drop GTD again). Maybe I should get one of those wearable chord keyboards from the late 90s and connect it to an always-on note-taking applicance...
  - eru 9y ago
    I found opening the Google Keep app on my phone to be fairly painless to quickly jot something down. I really like the location based reminders that Google introduced across the board.
krrrh 9y ago
If on iOS, the app Drafts[1] is a good option for your bottom row. It doesn't take care of typing speed, but it is optimized for time-to-cursor. That combined with the Siri phrase "Remind me to/about ___________ [at [time]|when I get [place]]" is as good as I've managed to get for mobile capture. It does still take discipline to clean these boxes out and get the info into an integrated system https://agiletortoise.com/drafts/ https://agiletortoise.com/drafts/

by mhd 9y ago

eru 9y ago

On the voice notes: Google's voice recognition has improved markedly in recent years. Now it can even understand my German-accented English rather well.

mhd 9y ago
I don't mind typing the notes once I'm in front of a real computer, I just don't want to do the "note to myself" while in public. And otherwise, I haven't found anything that gets me to capture things like "note: buy eggs" or "note: consider PEGs for the query builder optimization" fast enough. (Opening an app and laboriously using the mobile keyboard don't do it for me in the long run and just cause me to drop GTD again). Maybe I should get one of those wearable chord keyboards from the late 90s and connect it to an always-on note-taking applicance...
- eru 9y ago
  I found opening the Google Keep app on my phone to be fairly painless to quickly jot something down. I really like the location based reminders that Google introduced across the board.

krrrh 9y ago

If on iOS, the app Drafts[1] is a good option for your bottom row. It doesn't take care of typing speed, but it is optimized for time-to-cursor. That combined with the Siri phrase "Remind me to/about ___________ [at [time]|when I get [place]]" is as good as I've managed to get for mobile capture. It does still take discipline to clean these boxes out and get the info into an integrated system https://agiletortoise.com/drafts/ https://agiletortoise.com/drafts/